A federal fugitive fatally shot by police Sunday night outside Portland Adventist Medical Center might not have had a gun.

Merle M. Hatch was carrying a black piece of plastic that police thought was a gun and had no firearm on him, some Portland officers were told at roll calls Tuesday.

Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson declined to comment on the new information, saying police would release no additional details until detectives had interviewed the sergeant and two officers who fired at Hatch. The interviews are scheduled Wednesday.

Wilsonville:A Washington man is accused of trying to force another driver off the road near Wilsonville on Tuesday. State police received a report about 12 p.m. of a vehicle with Washington license plates traveling on an Interstate 5 road shoulder and attempting to force another vehicle out of a traffic lane, said Lt. Gregg Hastings, a police spokesman. A trooper pulled over the Washington vehicle near milepost 277 after seeing it try to force the other vehicle off the road near the Donald/Aurora interchange, Hastings said. The trooper found four grams of methamphetamine in the vehicle and its driver, Danial James Carpenter, 36, of Tacoma was arrested.

*A former Clackamas County jail deputy has dropped his appeal of a state order revoking his certification. That means the case of former Deputy Jeff T. Manley is closed and he will not be able to work in law enforcement again. He resigned in February 2012, during an internal investigation, under threat of termination. A state investigation then found that Manley failed to perform "tier checks," then falsified reports, indicating he had accounted for jail inmates. Manley's actions were found to be dishonest, placing other corrections employees in danger.